, 1887-04-28

Mrs MolIoy was more than two
F hundred miles from here, holding
public religious meetings when that
horrid murder was committed. She
left here tHenty days before and did
net return till nearly three months
afterward. No one DOUBTS Row that
she did not have, and could no: have
had anything to do with il. Ib9
charge against her. and for which she
was indicted. Is for concealing Gfa-
ham. knowing he had committed the
murder. Tuis chorge is absolutely
groundiess. Il IS not question Of
weight of evidence There is ab.o-
Iutcly 10 evidence at all of any knOwl
edge on Ter part of the commission
OF the crime until after the body OF
tie murdered woman was found TIE
latter part Of February, while the
murderer was confined in prson-
charged with another crime At that
time Mrs MolIoy was and had been
for nearly two months. absent III
Illinois, boiding revival meetin $
Guu naturally inquire how 1t could
be possible that q grand jury could
find an Indictment against her with
ont evidence. My answer Is. that he
fore her return from Illinois the sa-
loon interest, which is very pUtont
hero. charged her vi h having plan
ned the murder and managed its
preparation. They circulated mum
erous falsehoods connecting her name
with IT. and us soon aS one was eX-
ploded another was invented. In
this way an intense mob feeling was
created which was led on by states
attOruer, who became ther I willing
tool. The magistrates who held the
pretended preliminary examination
were il part of the mob. Tie rutlian-
~ conduct of the states attorney w2s
frequently appiauded By the enraged
mob, one of The magistrates at one
time clapping his hands to
start the mob. You ask how
can it be that the respectable citizens
of Missouri could be- guilty of or suf-
fer such conduct. / answer that it
was not the respectable citizens who
did it. In fact there We're but few
of that class present in the court
room during the examination. The
liquor interests and the roughs con
trolled and constituted the moi,
mainly.
1t will be impossible for me to
give you to fully understand what a
Missouri mob in the interest of the
liquor traffic is like. La one of the
cities of Puritan Iowa, where the
laws prohibit the traffic altogether,
and where it is outlawed. it has had
sufficient power to commit deliberate
murder by an organized conspiracy;
to conduct mock inquest by public
officers under its control and to defy
every effort to bring the murdercIs S
to justice If such things can be
done in that state by the monstrous
traffic, ought you to be surprised at
its power in this state, where it is
legalized through the instrumentality
of Missouri mob" especially when
the object of its vengeance is one who
is guilty of the heinous crime OF be-
ing woman. temperance lecturer
and a preacher"
In fact, these are the real offenses
for which she has been prosecuted
here have 40 doubt OF her inno-
cence, and the religious and moral
people of this city concur in this opin
ion.
The assaults upon Mrs. Molloy's
reputation for chastity are equally
groundless. They were a part of the
scheme Of the liquor interests to
ruin her on account of Ter power as
worker in the cause of Christ and
Of temperance. They were based on
statements exhorted from George
Graham while ne WAS threatened
with being lynehed by the mob. To
prOlong his life few days the cos
ardly wretch was induced to promise
a confession duplicating the ladies'
In few days he gave the public a
paper charging that he had frequent
" committed adultery with both Of
them, but denied in it that they had
anything to do with the murder or
even knew of 1t. This did not salts
fy the mod, and after further efforts
to extort from him a statement i'm
plicating the women in the murder.
without effect, the mob hung him.
the circumstances referred TO in his
statement have proven false. / an
confident that these charges are ut
terly false and malignant, and the
better classes of citizens of this city
are as fully convinced as l am. Mrs
Molloy is capable of doing Il grand
work for G. hrist, and all true Chris
tians Should stand iy her and shield
her from the malignant assaults OF
the rum power.
1orr brother in Christ,
JAMES BAKER